32 train cars derail near Topeka

GRANTVILLE  Workers are replacing 1,200 feet of damaged railroad track near Topeka where 32 cars from a pair of freight trains derailed.

No injuries were reported from the derailment just after 11 p.m. Monday. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports crews were aiming to have the tracks reopened by Tuesday night.

Union Pacific spokesman Mark Davis says 22 cars of a 142-car train hauling coal from Wyoming to Illinois went off the tracks first. A 122-car train bound from Kansas City, Kan., to Salina then hit the derailed cars. Ten empty cars of the westbound train then went off the tracks.

About 600 feet of track in each direction had to be replaced. Crews used heavy equipment to move the damaged cars and scoop up the spilled coal.

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32 UP rail cars derailed near Grantville
Posted: November 15, 2011 - 7:39am
By The Capital-Journal

GRANTVILLE — Cleanup is underway of 32 railroad cars near here after cars that left the rails from an eastbound Union Pacific train derailed cars from a westbound one late Monday.

UP Spokesman Mark Davis said no injuries were reported in the incident about 11:10 p.m. Monday when 22 hopper cars from a 142-car hauling coal from Wyoming to East St. Louis, Mo., left the rails. Ten empty cars from a westbound 122-car train then derailed.

No injuries were reported.

The cause of the mishap is under investigation, and crews were working to restore train traffic by late afternoon after workers replace about 600 feet of track on each line.

I see our leftist native american chiming in, expecting you to apologize instead of actually caring whether people were injured. I expect nothing more of him. He is about as petty a human being as can exist.

I'm with you and glad they weren't Amtrak cars and that humans weren't killed.

Only 200 yards of track torn up indicates that one train was stopped or moving very slowly on the siding and the other wasn't moving very fast either. A loaded run-through unit coal train doing 45 mph in a derailment would easily tear up a quarter to a half mile of track.
Unless the locomotive consist derails nobody's going to get hurt as there are no waycars (cabooses) on the rear end anymore.